Topp, Roger (photographer). Video, 1:01 minutes MPG format. Sitka is a city of about 8,700 people nestled beside the forested mountains of Baranof Island in southeast Alaska. The climate is mild with temperatures from the mid-20's to 30's in the...

Latin. Shows northern latitudes not previously recorded on a printed map. Attributed to Claudius Ptolemaeus. From the first woodblock atlas of the Latin translation of Ptolemy's Geography. Cut by Johannes Schnitzer of Armsheim, as evidenced by...

Verso: Philip J. Smith of Cordova receives congratulations on being the Alaska winner of the 1959-60 Voice of Democracy broadcast scriptwriting competition and one of four National Finalists. Philip is shown at the national Awards Luncheon in...

Verso: Alaska's William Randolph Hearst Scholars--Senator Ernest Gruening (D-Alaska) congratulates (left), Loren Leman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Nick Leman of Ninilchik and Tom Anderson, son of Mr. and Mrs. John M. Anderson of Anchorage who were chosen...

Relief shown pictorially. Contemporary color. Shows world in two spheres, with California as an island. Shows routes of Shouton, Drake, Cavendish, and others. Border contains renditions of the sun and moon, and a compass rose. Includes keys of...

Title taken from caption. "9359 -- (4) A permanent residence at St. Michaels is not a thing to be desired, particularly by persons of a sociable disposition, for the winters are long and dark and cold; for hundreds of miles in every direction...

Title taken from caption. "9206 -- (23) In 1897 Dr. J. Jones commanded a lucrative practice in Evanston, Ill., and Mr. G. B.Winter was one of the successful grocers of the same city. About this time the instigator and promoter of Klondike Gold...

Title taken from caption. "9324 -- (42) The pioneer white settler at Skagway located there in 1891, yet the first ship load of Yukon argonauts who landed on that beach in July, 1897, saw few signs of human habitations. Today four splendid...

Title supplied by cataloger. The person second from left appears to be a female. There are icicles hanging from the building and in one window a logo with what appears to be a bird between two capital A's. Some boxes sit on the ground behind...

Title taken from caption. View of a group of people riding on a wagon that is decorated with balloons, streamers, and banners in the Alaska State Fair parade in Palmer, Alaska. Banner reads: "State House" and has a bumper sticker on it that reads:...

Title taken from caption. View of many boats, buildings and people on the pier at Juneau. From May's journal, dated May 19th: "About 8 a.m. this morning we docked at Juneau, the capital of Alaska. ...Juneau is by far the nicest town we have seen...

Title taken from front. Aerial view of Kodiak, Alaska. From verso: "Alaska's oldest settlement. Established in 1792. 1. Largest bear in the world are found on Kodiak Island. 2. World famous king crab were first discovered and processed in Kodiak....